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Tuesday January 12, 9:01 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Connectinc.com
ConnectInc.com Teams With IBM to Create
Electronic Commerce Solution
MarketStream E-Commerce Application Incorporates IBM WebSphere Application
Server, WebSphere Performance Pack and IBM MQSeries
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ConnectInc.com (Nasdaq: CNKT - news) today announced an
initiative with IBM to offer its leading, OBI-enabled, e-commerce application, MarketStream*, using IBM's
high-performance WebSphere Application Server**, Standard Edition and WebSphere Performance Pack** and
integrating IBM MQSeries**. The solution will be available in the first quarter of 1999. ConnectInc.com, a member
of IBM's Solution Developer Program, also will be offering both OrderStream*, an application for business to
consumer electronic commerce and PurchaseStream*, an application for business to business electronic
commerce for the WebSphere product family and MQSeries as upgrades for existing customers.
MarketStream is a powerful, flexible electronic commerce application that provides a broad technology foundation
for the virtual marketplace. MarketStream includes support for integrated, cross-supplier catalog search,
product-specific attributes, tiered or customized pricing, buyer profiling and personalization, back-end system
integration and robust reporting capabilities. Unlike most buy or sell-side applications which focus on only a
portion of the business, MarketStream's comprehensive scope of functionality greatly reduces the technical effort
required to build a customized application to support a major vertical market.
''Best of breed e-commerce solutions are highly scalable, and must be optimized to run in the new cross-platform,
high transaction volume environments of ''.com'' companies,'' said Craig Norris, president and CEO of
ConnectInc.com. ''We are convinced this new relationship will help ConnectInc.com expand its presence among
the thousands of global companies serious about building mission-critical e-business solutions around open
standards.''
''The integration of MarketStream with the IBM WebSphere products and MQSeries will result in an e-commerce
solution that can fit the needs of a variety of businesses,'' said Steve Solazzo, vice president, Solution Developers
and Small/Growing Businesses for IBM Software Group. ''This initiative will produce an application that will help
bring sellers and buyers together in one comprehensive, online distribution location.''
WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition provides companies with an open, multi-platform,
standards-based, Web server deployment platform and Web site management tools. It offers customers a
solution to deploy e-business Web sites across a range of operating systems platforms including AIX**,
Windows NT****, Sun Solaris*****, OS/400, OS/390 and OS/2* Warp Server. WebSphere Performance Pack is
a unique combination of caching, proxy and filtering functions; file content management and replication; and load
balancing in a single Internet hosting infrastructure.
IBM MQSeries, the most widely used message-queuing software on the market, enables users to exchange
information between applications across more than 35 different platforms, from mainframes to PCs. This
award-winning software enables business integration throughout the enterprise, allowing companies to maximize
e-business opportunities by leveraging existing resources to improve speed-to-market and anticipate IT changes
as their business changes.
Under the terms of the agreement, ConnectInc.com has made a significant commitment to IBM Software and
WebSphere. IBM will provide support for marketing and development to assist ConnectInc.com in successfully
incorporating IBM's WebSphere with MarketStream and reaching its marketing objectives for IBM Websphere.
About ConnectInc.com
ConnectInc.com, formerly known as Connect, Inc., provides solutions and services to enable Internet-based
electronic commerce, and build ''connected corporations'' from any link in the digital value chain.
ConnectInc.com's technologies and service are optimized for today's multi-vendor, e-business solutions, and
allow companies to compete effectively in the digital economy. ConnectInc.com is a member of the IBM Solution
Developer Program.
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Notes are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation.
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SOURCE: Connectinc.com |
